Table 5 Factor loadings for the variables included in the factor analysis of school level data
From: What explains between-school differences in rates of smoking?
Factor 1 – school level affluence (eigenvalue = 3.73) | Factor 2 – access to clinics and placing requests (reflects urban from rural areas) (eigenvalue = 1.56) | Factor 3 – quality of relationships (eigenvalue = 1.23) | Factor 4 – school size and quality of school sex education (eigenvalue = 1.06) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Deprivation score of local area (linkage between school catchment area postcodes and Carstairs Index of Deprivation) | -0.922 | 0.044 | -0.023 | 0.248 |
Employment in school catchment area | 0.892 | -0.144 | 0.136 | -0.250 |
Staying on rates from Secondary (S)4 to S5 | 0.866 | 0.232 | -0.175 | 0.051 |
Pupils' post school destination | 0.842 | 0.244 | -0.147 | 0.289 |
Free school meals | 0.819 | -0.115 | -0.313 | 0.278 |
School attendance | 0.795 | -0.064 | -0.348 | -0.172 |
Staying on rates from S5 to S6 | 0.774 | 0.357 | -0.071 | 0.386 |
Access to sexual health services | 0.051 | 0.880 | -0.081 | -0.173 |
Parental placing requests for their child to attend a school (distinguishes urban from rural) | 0.041 | 0.822 | -0.035 | 0.101 |
Proportion of pupils from ethnic minority groups | -0.070 | -0.818 | 0.087 | 0.127 |
Quality of teacher relationships with each other | -0.028 | -0.116 | 0.873 | -0.091 |
Quality of teacher-pupil relationships | -0.334 | -0.059 | 0.748 | 0.059 |
Size of the school (total number of pupils in S3 & S4) | -0.055 | 0.184 | 0.156 | 0.803 |
Quality of sex education at the school | -0.064 | 0.515 | 0.083 | -0.781 |